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The Coach's Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life
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Product Description “Rena Seltzer’s workshops are perennial favorites with Yale faculty. Workshop alumni get more writing done, have more control over their schedules, and feel increased confidence in their leadership skills. Rena has also served as a coach for a number of Yale faculty leaders. Here as well, her work has been transformative. I am delighted to recommend The Coach’s Guide to anyone aspiring to learn from this wise and inspiring academic coach.”--Tamar Szabó Gendler, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University Review "Graduate schools do not prepare women for the numerous challenges they encounter in the various facets of academic life. This book identifies challenges and issues related to women's lives in academe and suggests practical and studied tactics to help women thrive in the academic world and in their own lives. Rena Seltzer has extensive experience as an academic coach and has gathered a compelling amount of data and first-hand experiences from women professors. She acknowledges that surviving in academia is not easy, especially for women and under-represented minorities. Oftentimes, women feel isolated and are not aware that some of the challenges they face are not uniquely their own. By identifying such challenges, Rena Seltzer achieves the goal of bringing awareness to these common experiences. In addition to identifying these challenges at the different stages of academic life, the book offers a deeper analysis of the issues and obstacles of academic life as well as provides practical advice on how to overcome them. Anecdotally, all female academics I have shared this book with have expressed great interest in it and admitted they would like or need to read it. One said, 'I wish this book was around when I started out!' The book is recommended to all women in academia but also to any faculty at any stage in her or his career who is experiencing some of the same challenges."-- (10/01/2016) "Rena Seltzer's book is the next best thing to a personal life coach. The book is partly a how-to manual with advice on just about every aspect of the academic career: What to do about time management, how to motivate and assess students, strategies for getting work published. Rena Seltzer (although you may find yourself referring to her by her first name, because this book will feel like a comforting friend) distills usable techniques from the enormous literatures on writing and teaching effectiveness. As we all know, however, a successful career is not only a matter of mastering writing skills and communication techniques. The greatest wisdom of this book is in the recognition of the deep psychological and sociological issues that lie at the base of our challenges. With insight and empathy, Rena Seltzer picks through the detritus of embarrassing episodes and horrendous faux pas to distill lessons for the next round. Using examples from real people she has helped through a variety of struggles, she has constructed labels through the labyrinth. Rena Seltzer has written a gem of a book. I have watched her present parts of it at faculty development sessions at Yale University where I was Deputy Provost for Faculty and Development. The women professors who attended these workshops could not get enough of Rena Seltzer, because she provides wisdom for what matters most: career success on terms that make us happier people. I am delighted she has written this book, and you will be a richer person for having read it."--Frances Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science " The Coach's Guide for Women Professors will be an amazing asset for female academics. It is packed full of practical and empowering strategies that will pay immediate dividends, as well as being a resource that you will want to return to for clear solutions to challenges that arise. It is an invaluable resource for women (and men)
